{"id":4114,"date":"2020-07-13T12:17:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:17:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:17:28","slug":"technological-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/2020\/07\/13\/technological-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Technological Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have been working on sorting data regarding symptoms of colorectal cancer patients. I am using excel to sort through the data while my counterpart is using R studio. This past week I was also in charge of doing some research and reading journals on the death rates of COVID-19 patients across the country. I found it very interesting because I was reading about the excess death-rates, which is essentially all deaths related to COVID-19. These are people that have died due to COVID-19 effects. This includes suicides, domestic violence, asthma related issues, not going to the hospital when they should have etc. I was in charge of leading a discussion for us interns about the research I found. Statisticians are able to record the number of deaths directly related to COVID-19, but they must also account for all of the deaths that are COVID-19 related, or illnesses that resulted from COVID-19 illness. I was most interested in leading a discussion about where to draw the line, or what illnesses\/effects of COVID-19 count as a COVID-19 related death. There are many challenges because statisticians (epidemiologists) from hospitals worldwide should likely be on the same page about where they draw this distinction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have also been able to personally contribute to my team because I am the only one that has taken a statistics course based on R studio. It is difficult to learn how to code, so I am able to offer help where I can. I have also taken an excel course at Richmond so I am a bit more technologically advanced on the technological side since my peers have not yet been able to take an R or excel course. My team has been super helpful when I have questions as well. I really enjoy working with the other interns as well as Mithat. So far, it has been really great and I feel as though I have contributed the most I can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on sorting data regarding symptoms of colorectal cancer patients. I am using excel to sort through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[76614],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-contributions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}